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School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)

Location:
Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máirtín Breathnach
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    What is a little thing that grows in the ditch and if you touch it, it will give you the itch?
    A nettle.
    As I loooked into a falla I saw twenty four buldogs tearing up a hollow?
    A harrow.
    What never takes its hands from its face?
    A clock.
    London, Derry, Cork, and Kerry spell them without a K?
    Them.
    Did you ever see a half pig's head with two eyes?
    Wouldn't you see it with your own two eyes.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cappagh, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    34
    Address
    Cappagh, Co. Kilkenny